Shame is a fitter, and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

A wise man will not discourage that discretion in a mistress which will be his glory and security in a wife.

It is the custom of the world to give way to iniquitous practices, and then to plead the Fashion against the attempt to reform them.

Human depravity, it is feared, will oftener justify those who judge harshly, than those who judge favourably.

When conscience acquits, who shall condemn?

Infinite beauties are there to be found in a weeping eye.

Vice turns beauty into deformity.

Riches and power never want advocates.

All men love to have difficulties to conquer in courtship.

The want of reward is no warrant for us to dispense with our duty.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.

Comeliness, not having so much to lose as Beauty has, will hold when Beauty will evaporate or fly off.

How unhappy must be the unchaste mother, whose very tenderness to her illegitimate offspring reminds her of her guilt.

One error persisted in, frequently produces others.

There is more joy in expectation and preparation than in fruition.

Calamity is necessary to wean our hearts from a too great love of this world.

Every thing is pretty that is young.

Hope, or a state of doubt, gives an ardor to a lover which subsides in certainty.

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

We are all of us very ready to be persuaded on the side of inclination.

The mind is often indicated by outward dress.

A generous expansion of heart, and frankness of manners, mingled with dignity, will far more recommend a woman to a man of sense, than beauty.

Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

A man, by seeming afraid of control, often subjects himself to it.

The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.